1949: 'Red Menace' shocks East Stroudsburg movie goers

• For sale at Brown's Market at 617 Main St., Stroudsburg, were local fresh eggs at 55 cents per dozen, meaty pork chops at 59 cents per pound and delicious sliced bacon at 53 cents per package.

• The homecoming celebration for John Michael Price caught the paralyzed veteran completely by surprise.

The massive turnout went beyond those participating in a scheduled parade to include hundreds of residents who lined the parade route in Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg.

This was the first time Price had been home in six years.

• Monroe County's semi-pro football team, Pocono Mountains Athlete Club, scored only in the first period of their game against the Philadelphia Rams at Gordon Giffels Field in Stroudsburg, but it was enough to give Pocono a 13-0 victory.

"It was one of the most cleanest games played in this area this season, with most of the penalties being limited to off sides and backfield in motion," according to The Daily Record.

• Someone placed a heavy log, 10 inches in diameter and four feet long, on the railroad track between Tinkertown Crossing and Empire Box Co. in an attempt to wreck a fast-moving Lackawanna passenger train.

The attempt was not successful.

• During a meeting of the Anna Logan Society of the General Hospital, members planned to bake holiday fruit cake to sell during a fundraiser, which would benefit the local hospital.

• Older residents of Monroe County took time out to recall the historic flood of Oct. 10, 1903.

One area that they remembered flooding was Delaware Water Gap: "As the river rose the railroad station at Delaware Water Gap was partially submerged. The swollen waters swirled under the eaves of the station and touched the lower stands of wires attached to the railroad telegraph poles."

• Dr. Guy Shipler, publisher-editor of "The Churchman" and a noted clergyman, found a watch in the men's washroom at the Penn-Stroud Hotel in Stroudsburg.

The owner of the watch, D.E. Merriman, a purchasing agent for the Stanley Works in Connecticut, claimed the watch and offered Shipler a finder's award. Shipler declined and suggests the award be given to the Community Chest Campaign.

As a result of the donation, the campaign was enriched by $5.

• Two juveniles, both 12, not only admitted to trying to derail the Lackawanna Train on Tuesday, but confessed to burglarizing and vandalizing cottages and hotels in the Minisink Hill-Delaware Water Gap area.

• Showing at the Grand Theater in East Stroudsburg was the anti-communist film "The Red Menace."

"So shocking, it was filmed behind sealed studio doors," according to the advertisement in The Daily Record.

• The morning skies were cloudy and occasional showers sprinkled the Stroudsburg area. By midmorning, the skies were clear.

Janis Dahlman

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